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CNBC Bonus Bucks Trivia: On May 19, Jim Cramer called which agriculture stock a “great buy”?

Tags: Monsanto (MON), Bunge (BG), Syngenta (SYT), CNBC Trivia, MON, SYT, BG
22 May 6:07pm
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On May 19, Jim Cramer called which agriculture stock a “great buy”?

Seems like a case of “all of the above.”

Regular viewers of Mad Money know Cramer’s been bullish on agriculture stocks. Syngenta (SYT) is one of the few among them not yet at its 52-week high. He called SYG a “great buy,” saying, “Anytime you get a discount…I’d pull the trigger.” That goes for Bunge (BG) and Monsanto (MON) too, he said.

Syngenta is another one of those stocks that just doesn’t make it into my models, so there isn’t much I can say about it. Bunge looks good on the basis of earnings momentum and price momentum, but poor on the basis of free cash flow. Monsanto looks good on earnings and price momentum but poor for both free cash flow and return potential.

Disclosure: At time of publication, William Trent has no financial position in the companies mentioned in this article.

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Stock Market Beat editor William A. Trent, CFA, has been an equity analyst since 1996 and is co-author of Understanding and Evaluating Prospectuses, Offering Documents, and Proxy Statements. Prior to starting Stock Market Beat he was Senior Equity Analyst for New Amsterdam Partners LLC, a $6 billion institutional asset manager. His experience covers all market-cap sizes and is primarily within the TMT (Telecom, Media and Technology) and Transportation sectors. He is also the senior editor of Financial Education. He is available for freelance writing and consulting projects and can be contacted here. He is not, however, a registered investment advisor and will not accept funds for management.